First March Madness women’s bracket predictions of 2025

We’re officially just 8 weeks out from Selection Sunday, which means it’s time to tip off my weekly women’s basketball bracket predictions every Tuesday leading up to the big reveal of the 2025 March Madness bracket!

Each week, I’ll break down my Top 16 teams (those with hosting rights), spotlight notable shifts, highlight signature wins, and, of course, update you on bubble teams. An unbeaten UCLA secures the top overall seed and is joined by No. 1 seeds South Carolina, Notre Dame and Southern Cal.

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2025 March Madness women’s bracket predictions

SEED SpokanE 1 Birmingham 2 Spokane 4 Birmingham 3
1 UCLA South Carolina South Carolina Notre Dame
16 Longwood/Eastern Illinois Farleigh Dickinson/Texas Southern Wofford North Carolina A&T
         
8 Mississippi State Nebraska Creighton Utah
9 SDSU Florida State Louisville Indiana
         
5 NC State Alabama West Virginia Georgia Tech
12 Middle Tennessee FGCU UNLV Murray State
         
4 Tennessee Duke North Carolina Oklahoma
13 Montana State Fairfield UC Irvine James Madison
         
6 Michigan Vanderbilt Cal Michigan State
11 Harvard/Virginia Tech Stanford/Washington Iowa UTSA
         
3 Kentucky Ohio State Kansas State Maryland
14 Grand Canyon Norfolk State Gonzaga Ball State
         
7 Minnesota Oklahoma State Baylor Ole Miss
10 Richmond Illinois Oregon Columbia
         
2 TCU Texas LSU UConn
15 UAlbany SE Louisiana Purdue Fort Wayne Lehigh

Last Four in: Virginia Tech, Washington, Harvard, Iowa State

First Four out: Stanford, Florida, Clemson, Seton Hall

📊 POWER RANKINGS: Autumn Johnson drops Ohio State out of most recent Power 10 rankings

Conferences with multiple teams in the bracket

CONFERENCE TOTAL TEAMS TEAMS
Big Ten 13 UCLA, Michigan, Minnesota, Southern Cal, Iowa, Oregon, Nebraska, Washington, Ohio State, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan State, Maryland
ACC 10 NC State, Virginia Tech, Louisville, North Carolina, Cal, Florida State, Duke, Stanford, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech
SEC 10 Mississippi State, Tennessee, Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina, Alabama, Vanderbilt, Texas, Oklahoma, Ole Miss
Big 12 7 TCU, West Virginia, Kansas State, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Utah, Iowa State,

Autumn Johnson’s automatic qualifiers

AUTOMATIC QUALIFIERS Teams
America East UAlbany
American Athletic UTSA
A-10 Richmond
ACC Notre Dame
ASUN Florida Gulf Coast
Big 12 TCU
Big East UConn
Big Sky Montana State
Big South Longwood
Big Ten UCLA
Big West UC Irvine
CAA NC A&T
CUSA Middle Tennessee
Horizon Purdue Fort Wayne
Ivy Columbia
MAAC Fairfield
MAC Ball State
MEAC Norfolk State
Missouri Valley Murray State
Mountain West UNLV
Northeast Farleigh Dickinson
Ohio Valley Eastern Illinois
Patriot Lehigh
SEC South Carolina
Southern Wofford
Southland SE Louisiana
SWAC Texas Southern
Summit League South Dakota State
Sun Belt JMU
WCC Gonzaga
WAC Grand Canyon

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